Nokia and Sony Ericsson are targeting the U.S. with a new set of unlocked phones. But without hefty carrier subsidies, will they ever be able to crack the U.S. market?

Say hello to your latest personal navigation device: a netbook. Dell plans to introduce a GPS and Wi-Fi card that can be integrated into the company's netbooks to turn them into gizmos that can offer turn-by-turn direction as well as any Garmin or TomTom.

The number of Internet scammers offering fake anti-swine flu drug, Tamiflu has surpassed those selling counterfeit Viagra, a UK body said Friday.

Bored with Pearl, the cursing toddler landlord demanding rent money? Not amused by those cutesy pictures of cats with the baby-speak captions? Replenish your list of favorite bookmarks with these 10 new or lesser-known humor Web sites, including some that find comedy in real life.

A federal judge tentatively overturned the conviction of a Missouri woman accused of using MySpace to deceive a teenage girl who eventually committed suicide, a U.S. attorney's spokesman told CNN.

Impatient Harry Potter fans can join the young wizard on their video game consoles two weeks ahead of the July 15 movie release of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.

In this week's look at the latest video games, we meet mischievous minions, angry yetis, hairy goblins and even pigs in wedlock.

As he rolls across the wheat fields of his Nebraska farm, Steve Tucker often has his hands not on the wheel of his tractor, but on a smartphone. He posts messages daily on Twitter about everything from the weather to the state of his crops -- and he's not alone.

Revamped privacy settings are coming soon to Facebook.

Two states are taking very different approaches when it comes to managing spending cuts and sustaining education technology budgets. In Pennsylvania, Democratic Gov. Ed Rendell has proposed cutting his signature Classrooms for the Future initiative, which provides laptops and training to the state's schools. Maine, despite economic worries of its own, is expanding its one-to-one laptop initiative to all state high schools. Key words: education technology funding, Maine school technology funding, Pennsylvania technology funding, Maine Learning Technology Initiative, Classrooms for the Future, education, technology

Vice President Joe Biden on July 1 outlined a $4.7 billion loan and grant program to develop the infrastructure needed to deliver broadband, or high-speed, internet access to areas that are underserved or without access. Key words: rural broadband access, rural broadband funding, technology access, K-12 technology access, broadband internet, education, technology

Bloody attacks and midnight arrests, combined with a regime growing more technologically savvy, have begun stemming the flow of online information from dissidents in Iran, activists and human rights officials say.

As Internet-based economies edge closer to their real-world counterparts, one country is apparently trying to build a wall between the two.

Despite a growing interest in online learning among students, the availability of online classes in K-12 schools and districts hasn't kept pace with the demand, according to a new report from Project Tomorrow and Blackboard Inc. Key words: Online learning, K-12 online learning, Project Tomorrow, Blackboard Inc., online learning trends, Learning in the 21st Century: 2009 Trends Update

In a move that could help keep higher-education campus networks safe, Microsoft Corp. released a beta test of a free computer security program on June 23 and is on track to launch a finished product in the fall. Key words: computer security, school security, campus network security, Microsoft Corp., education, technology

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New platform increases network capacity for Department of Energy, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Princeton University's High Energy Physics research lab

Ciena today announced that MAGPI (Mid-Atlantic Gigapop for Internet2), an Information Systems and Computing organization at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, has implemented a network based on the CN 4200® FlexSelect® Advanced Services Platform to support high performance network connectivity among multiple research labs located at Princeton University's Forrestal Campus and the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Energy Sciences Network 4 (ESnet4), which operates over Internet2's nationwide infrastructure. ESnet4 provides the DOE with a dynamic and reliable communications infrastructure and leading-edge network services to foster greater scientific collaboration to support the agency's research projects and goals.

Supporting new high-capacity 10 GbE connectivity to replace a previous 155 Mbps service, the network provides support to the DOE's Princeton Plasma Physics Lab, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrationâ??s (NOAA) Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratoryand http://www.princeton.edu/physics/. Now directly connected to hundreds of educational and research institutions worldwide through ESnet4, the labs can further their efforts in advanced, bandwidth-intensive alternative energy and climate simulation research. The network deployment is being coordinated and managed by MAGPI, as part of a collaborative effort between the DOE/ESnet, NOAA and MAGPI.

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Back in April, I interviewed Mark Zuckerberg as part of my research for Wired's Great Wall of Facebook piece.

After a string of real celebrity deaths last week, the Internet killed a few more stars. Despite what you may have read, Jeff Goldblum, Natalie Portman, Britney Spears, Harrison Ford and Rick Astley are alive. Fake news of their deaths flew across social-networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook.

NASA and Japan improved our world view this week, or at least our view of the world.

Had the government not delayed its controversial order that all computers be equipped with an Internet filter by July 1, the result would have been the same -- Chinese computer retailers were far from ready.